With the release of Thor: Ragnarok fast approaching, Fandango has revealed that the Marvel threequel has edged out Warner Bros. Justice League in its poll to find the most anticipated movie of the fall, while early box office tracking is predicting that the film will open domestically with around $100 million. Should that project prove accurate, it would put Ragnarok ahead of the God of Thunder’s previous solo movies (which debuted to $65 million and $85 million respectively), although it would be down on the MCU’s two other releases this year, with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 opening to $147 million and Spider-Man: Homecoming $117 million…

…Marvel certainly stepped up its promotional efforts for Thor: Ragnarok this week, releasing a TV trailer which sees Thor assembling his new team ‘The Revengers’ [watch it here], along with a promo [watch it here], an IMAX poster [see here], eight character posters [see here] and a pair of promotional posters featuring the battle between Thor and The Hulk [see here]. Meanwhile, stars Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson have been discussing the relationship between Thor and Valkyrie [read their comments here], while Thompson slammed “dumb” male screenwriters for their handling of female heroes [read her comments here] and the film’s producer Brad Winderbaum has teased its connections to Avengers: Infinity War and Guardians of the Galaxy, as well as discussing its Planet Hulk inspiration [see here]…

…Hasbro has unveiled some of its upcoming tie-in action figures for Marvel’s Black Panther movie, which give us our first look at Michael B. Jordan’s Erik Killmonger in his Golden Jaguar suit; take a look at the figures here…

…Flickering Myth’s Alex Moreland spoke to Marvel’s Visual Development Supervisor Andy Park this week, with Andy discussing his work on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, the Marvel house style and more. You can read the full interview here…

…Despite this alleged difference of opinion on Inhumans, Marvel’s Head of Television Jeph Loeb has confirmed that we’ll be seeing more Marvel series on the network in the future: “Absolutely. Obviously, these aren’t things I can talk about. But look, as it is with every single one of the networks that we have gotten with that this is with, and whether it’s Fox or it’s FX or it’s Freeform, or it’s Hulu, or it’s Netflix, ABC is always going to be our mothership…It is a Disney-owned network. We are a Disney-owned corporation and we’re a good fit for each other. We speak a lot of the same language and the kinds of things that are important to them, which is people rising up again adversity; real emotion; a strong female character, but also a strong sense of family and questions of identity…All of those things are key to being a successful ABC show, but they’re also key to being a Marvel show. So in that way we’re going to go and see what happens along the way…”

…As we await a premiere date for Netflix’s The Punisher, we’ve had a new image from the Jon Bernthal-headlined solo series which features Frank Castle during his days in the Marines [check it out here], while Bernthal spoke about the character’s motiviation, stating that dealing out ‘justice’ in his killing sprees is “the only thing that silences the demons, temporarily. There’s going to be an attempt to move beyond the Punisher, but that’s something he can’t shake. There’s part of me that’s hungry to get back into the darkness, that’s excited to see it fall apart…”